[Theodore R.]

*ping*

[D. Brian Carter]

The US Supreme Court will eventually overrule this decision, no doubt.

[Ben Bolt]

Pro ~ Life Bump !

[Non-Sequitur]

A couple of years ago there was a case in Missouri involving a DWI conviction and appeal. Since the Missouri legislature had passed a law saying that life began at conception, the arguement went, then the man convicted of DWI while only 20 years old was actually 9 months older than his chronological age. Therefore he should have been charged under the more lenient adult DWI laws. I wonder when similar defenses will be used in Alabama.

[afuturegovernor]

ping

[Kevin Curry]

The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a decision criticized by one of its members as an assault on Roe v. Wade, . . .

Are you looking for "idols" to smash? Here's a particularly hideous idol right under your nose:

Roe v. Wade

That foul monument has been forced into every courthouse in this nation by our progressive, liberal SCOTUS.

I applaud the Mississippi Supreme Court for having the clear vision to identify the true enemy crouching in its halls.

The ACLU-femino-liberal-atheist gang that has taken over our government is screaming that child-sacrificing Moloch is being "assaulted" even as they preen over their success in getting the Ten Commandments (including the injunction against killing the innocent and blameless) removed from a courthouse in Alabama.

But it appears quite clear which side you are on.

[Always Right]

Presiding Justice Chuck McRae, in a written dissent, described the decision as an assault on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion in America.

And Roe v. Wade has been a deadly assult on unborn children for the last 30+ years.

[cubreporter]

They are just now figuring that out?

[Doohickey]

Well good. No new laws are required to restrict abortions, at least in Mississippi. Since a fetus is a person, good old tried and true murder can be used.

[AKA Elena]

As I said in an earlier post (or words to this effect)--- that baby, from the moment of conception will never be a cockroach or a bird -- he or she is an incubating child!

As we continue to violate the most primal laws of nature -- unlike any other living thing -- and use abortion and some specious considerations ... aside from the unification of the sperm and the ovum as definition for a human being, having the right to LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! we will continue to sink into the morass!

[tortoise]

(Cut-and-pasted from another thread I posted this on.)

The fetus was 19 weeks old at the time.

The important point. Under the old Common Law, this is right around the time (4-5 months) when a fetus becomes eligible for civil and criminal damages independent of the mother. However, the fetus is still subordinate to the mother; the fetus can assert no practical rights but the mother (or court if the mother is unable to) can claim damages on behalf of the fetus after this point as though it were a second person.

So this court case is essentially consistent with the English Common Law tradition of the US, and should not be construed to have "anti-abortion" relevance. If you look at this carefully, you see some of the judicial difficulty in outlawing abortion outright, particularly in the first trimester. The US legal system is built on a foundation of English Common Law that doesn't expressly disallow abortion and implicitly supports it conceptually, particularly before the time that the Common Law grants very limited legal status to the fetus.

This is the context in which the court decision should be framed, and makes it more clear why the Supreme Court has been compelled to rule like it has on this issue (irrespective of the value judgment). The Common Law legal status of a fetus has been around for at least a couple thousand years, and we still use it today, like most other things in the Common Law.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Mississippi Supreme Court Declares Sky To Be Blue

Nothing like stating the obvious!